'Is he not a son and a brother?'

The parallel between abortion on demand and slavery has always seemed to me to be a striking one. In both cases, a living member of our species is reduced to the status of a chattel and treated, to all intents and purposes, as the property of another. Either can be justified only by dehumanizing the victim, and treating him or her alike a chair or a comb or a spare tire, to be disposed of as one wills.

This article is a remarkably thoughtful and measured expansion on that theme. I commend it to you.